Women in regional Australia are being ‘sent to jail’ due to a lack of safe housing for domestic violence victims.

The Royal Commission into Family Violence heard that women waiting low-level court hearings are being sent to maximum security prisons because it’s not safe for them in the community.

“I have magistrates tell me directly that they have had to remand mothers of our children because there’s nowhere safe for the mother to be… which I find a sad indictment on this society,” Aboriginal Children’s Commissioner Andrew Jackomos told the Royal Commission.

Mr Jackomos told The Age that this incarceration can start a cycle of crime.

“The majority that go in on remand don’t go on to serve a custodial sentence. But I know of young Koori girls who go in clean and come out dirty. If you go to prison while on remand, you’re more likely to return.”

3. Police tell woman locking her baby in the car is “not an emergency.”

A Queensland woman had just buckled up her 18-month-old daughter before she closed the door, accidentally locking her in.

Mother told baby locked in car is not an emergency. Image: iStock.

Bella Clegg from Wondunna closed the door, setting off the vehicle’s automatic locking system while her keys remained on the front seat.

Panicked and unable to get into her car, Ms Clegg called emergency services who told her “it’s not an emergency. You need to get a locksmith, love.”

By some stroke of luck, Ms Clegg’s daughter managed to retrieve the keys and press the unlock button, the Fraser Coast Chronicle reports.

4. Australian boy is world’s fastest Rubik’s Cube master.

An Australian teen is again the fastest person in the world to solve a Rubik’s Cube.